A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)) Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar system’s primordial past. This discovery involves a dense concentration of ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...

Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a ...

Ever wondered how those weird, floating "snowmen" way out in the deep freeze of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit manage ...

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Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

These peculiar celestial 'snowmen' are found in the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse beyond Neptune, which is filled with icy remnants dating back to the solar system's formation. The region lies beyond ...